The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-07-14
TAM NJ AN Y HALL.
A GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY
AND RINGING SPEECHES
On July 18th, f'sunset'' Cox Delivers
Hot Shot Into Republican Ranks
The Donkeys Denounced.

On July 18th, ''sunset'' Cox Delivers
Hot Shot Into Republican Ranks
The Donkeys Denounced.
After a manly speech by Coy.
Lee, of Virginia, and remarks by
VIM. c. Maybury, of Michigan and
Hon. Barnes Compton, of Maryland,
''Sunset" Cox enumerated the great |
violations of representative govern
ment which the Republican party
had been guilty Of, and denounced
them as insurgents against represen-
tative government. He continued:
"What have these insurgents
against representative government
as an issue? Eureka I! Lacking bet
ter matter, and in order to chloro-
form their own conscience they would
a score of years after the civil war
First, rectify and control State suf-
frage by Congressional law. This
is John Sherman's latest scheme.
Second, magnify and aggrandise
corporate wealth and influence, and,
third, make new crusade as sec
tional party against the South. The
first is an old and obsolete dodge,
unworthy of the name of Sherman.
1t shows the lamentable straits to
which his party is driven. AS to
the second the Democratic party
could not do more than it has
either in Congress or in the State
legislature, by Investigations into
the subsidized railroads, by forfeit
ure for non-use of the grants, and
by attempts to nullify the action of
a plutocratic Senate. What cata-
logue Of obsequious and corrupt jobs
has been fostered in and out of Con-
gress by the party of loose construc-
ton and habits! Now in matters
for arbitration and facilities for la
Dor organization, the Democratic
aim has been and should be to see
that labor receives its fair share of
the rewards of industry and that its
hours of work should, in so far as
government may control, be such as
to give relief for the education and
amelioration of the industrious and
their families. (Applause). AS to
the third. How they seized on the
flag incident to raise thunderous
, outcry against the South.
Cline rolls along! A quarter of
a century elapses! A new genera
, ton appears! Slavery is dead !!
Slaves are counted one for one in
the representation. The amendments
! of the Constitution are unquestioned.
The South is fraternal; they meet
in one common Congress they
vote pensions to their enemies they
meet together at Gettysburg upon
the old fields of strife, to renew their
= pledges to a united country-are
: proud to recognize the sentiment of
. Cicero-one thought for the Repub-
. lie! (Cheers.) The flags of the
e battle lie mouldering in the attics OF
i the War Department. A tender
y illegal, but generous-is made Of
# these new symbols of the unhappy
e strife, when 10 eataclysm that has
n no parallel for violence, noise and
e quake since the world began! A
u u party without an issue, party with
. . out hope, seizes on this innocent anC
" ," and clement thought to arouse into
: flame the embers, almost fireless, OF
# sectional hate. [ can find no paral
IS lei or illustration for the unseemly
n performance. L beg pardon.
y have one.
= 'Last summer it was my pleasure
IF to live in one of the isles of tn
le Princes. 1t is called Prinkipos. /
J is sort of Saratoga for pleasure ant
y health-seekers, set on mountainou
+ island of pines-a Paradise-a new
!. South, bursting out of the old ant
r harried Propontis! There was on
drawback to pleasures ofPrinkipos
The isle, like that in Shakespeare
Tempest, was full of strange noises
II 4 hear an equivocal sort of bruit
K It is the distant thunder of Jov
is is from Mount Olympus, in sight Q
re our isle. Is it the rolling of til
~ Ismid train across the channel? l
~ ~ starts afar! 1t approaches 1t is
r. No? Yes? 1t is the grand diapasol
B. of the jackasses. (Roars of prolong
ne ed laughter.) It frights the isl
ty from its propriety.
e. "Be it known that the isle is ful
of donkeys. They carry water an
ne vegetables-and tourists-up an
OF down and over the mountains.
re re am not unfriendly to the donkey
~ He has good name for patienc
7 and industry. I was familiar wit
an them, in and out of Congress.
sr. admire their courage. They ca
whip California grizzly. Most Z
.e those who are donkeys don't kno,
en- it, and therefore they are don
q keys. { (Laughter.) When they kno'
al it they are not donkeys. Laughter
nd The Republicans don't know i
no no Laughter. But must draw til
as as line ON some of his qualities.
y. starts with an exaggerated case {
: Asthma. laughter I used
hear when d boy the creaking of Il
he untarred wheels of the Conestos
r. wagon from Pennsylvania. / ha,
in lately heard the screaming shado
cd turned by blind buffaloes, pumpir
the Nile upon the fruitful land